Not keen on spending big bucks for a tablet to accompany a Galaxy S or another Android phone? Samsung has a couple of newbies on the way.
Tablets come in all sorts of prices, but there tends to be one pretty clear logic for these mobile computers: if you want something different, you need to be prepared to spend up.
Whether you opt for an iPad Air, iPad Pro, or even the Android equivalent in the Samsung camp via the Tab S10 Ultra, you’re probably going to spend over a thousand dollars. Unfortunately, that’s not something everyone wants to do, and if you’re looking to save money on the high-end, you may be looking for something else.
Over in the Android camp, Samsung is ready with something focused on the ever growing mid-range, offering two takes on last year’s S10 designed to keep the price down. There’s no massive “Ultra” model, but the Galaxy Tab S10 FE range is designed to offer similar design and features, but at a fraction of the price, similar to its FE phones.
Two sizes will be offered for the Tab S10 FE, with a 10.9 inch S10 FE and a 13.1 inch S10 FE+, both of which opt for 90Hz LCD screens compared with the AMOLED offerings on Samsung’s more premium tablets. Inside is either 8GB or 12GB RAM depending on the option, and either 128 or 256GB storage, plus a Samsung Exynos chip.
The tablet is IP68 water resistant, something Apple has yet to support in any of its tablet (even though we’ve commented repeatedly), and there’s also an S-Pen in the box much like there is on the Galaxy S25 Ultra phone.
The price is a little closer to being friendly, taking on the recent iPad Air with an $849 starting price in WiFi with 128GB storage, while the 5G option starts from $200 more at $1049, and the larger S10 FE+ starts from $1099 for a 128GB WiFi model with the 5G equivalent from $1299.
Like the Galaxy S phone equivalent, the Tab S10 FE supports some of the AI technology found on its mobiles, including Google Circle to Search, a photo object eraser, and math and handwriting help from the AI built in. Unlike its high-end Galaxy S phones, however, the Tab S10 FE range works from the chip use in its mid-range, the Exynos 1580.
As to whether the Tab S10 FE is worth the price of admission, our initial feeling is the chip is probably underpowered for where it should be, but the limited Android tablets may not mean you’ll care that much. You just might be happy to have an Android tablet that accompanies a similar Android phone.
If you consider yourself in this little category, the Tab S10 FE is set to arrive in stores from April 17, arriving in three colours.
